From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 16 9:26:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from border.dreamworks.com (dreamworks.com [209.179.64.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 38C8414C4F for ; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:26:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abs@anim.dreamworks.com) Received: from cynic.anim.dreamworks.com by border.dreamworks.com via smtpd (for hub.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.18]) with SMTP; 16 Jul 1999 16:26:37 UT Received: from localhost (abs@localhost) by cynic.anim.dreamworks.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA02966; Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:21:51 -0700 (PDT) X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.anim.dreamworks.com: abs owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 09:21:50 -0700 (PDT) From: David Brownlee To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Sean Witham , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Garance A Drosihn , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tech-userlevel@netbsd.org Subject: Re: Swap overcommit (was Re: Replacement for grep(1) (part 2)) In-Reply-To: <199907161603.JAA19963@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I'm sorry, but when you write code for a safety related system you > do not dynamically allocate memory at all. It's all essentially static. > There is no issue with the memory resource. Besides, none of the BSD's are > certified for any of that stuff that I know of. > > What's next: A space shot? These what-if scenarios are getting > ridiculous. Well, NetBSD is slated to be used in the 'Space Acceleration Measurement System II', measuring the microgravity environment on the International Space Station using a distributed system based on several NetBSD/i386 boxes. Sometimes your 'what-if' senarios are others' standard operating procedures. David/absolute What _is_, what _should be_, and what _could be_ are all distinct. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message